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WMFAQ Ep. 17: End of Year Scorecard and Merchandise Update!

Join http://www.WatchMojo.com for a this week’s FAQ show where we answer your programming, business, and channel-related questions. In this 17th episode of WMFAQ, our CEO and co-founder Ashkan Karbasfrooshan sits down with Rebecca to discuss our new merch, and to grade ourselves on the initiatives we started this year.

Each week, Rebecca will host a WatchMojo staffer, who will discuss his or her area of expertise and give you a better idea of life behind the scenes at WatchMojo.

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Hubble Finds Extremely Distant Galaxy in Gravitational Lens

Peering through a giant cosmic magnifying glass, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted one of the farthest, faintest, and smallest galaxies ever seen. The diminutive object is estimated to be over 13 billion light-years away.
This new detection is considered one of the most reliable distance measurements of a galaxy that existed in the early universe, said the Hubble researchers. They used two independent methods to estimate its distance.

The galaxy was detected as part of the Frontier Fields program, an ambitious three-year effort, begun in 2013, that teams Hubble with NASA’s other Great Observatories — the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory — to probe the early universe by studying large galaxy clusters. These clusters are so massive that their gravity deflects light passing through them, magnifying, brightening, and distorting background objects in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. These powerful lenses allow astronomers to find many dim, distant structures that otherwise might be too faint to see.
Please join +Tony Darnell Dr +Carol Christian  and +Scott Lewis as we talk with the Principal Investigators of this exciting discovery.

Bring your questions and comments and we’ll read them on air throughout the hangout!

Read more here:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/39/

*Special Note*

Our own Dr. +Jason Kalirai has been nominated for a Listener Choice Award for an audio segment on Exploring Exoplanets released last July.

Please show your support for the #JWST mission by listening to his segment here

Jason Kalirai, Johns Hopkins University – Exploring Exoplanets

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 http://academicminute.org/2014/11/listener_choice_award/

A Black Hole Visits Baltimore

A scientific visualization of a black hole passing through Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

This scientific visualization demonstrates the visual distortion known as gravitational lensing. A black hole, with roughly the mass of the planet Saturn, is imagined to pass over the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD. The view of the buildings on the far side of the harbor are distorted using the calculated effects of Einstein’s general relativity.

A black hole warps the space around it. Light that passes near a black hole will follow curved paths and can create multiple images and other visual artifacts. Note that the sky can sometimes be seen by looking below the black hole. These distortions are similar to what can be produced using glass lenses, and are produced by similar optics equations. The effects are called gravitational lensing – lensing that redirects light using mass instead of glass.

The calculations for the visualization use a planar approximation that assumes the buildings are all at the same distance, but are otherwise accurate. Note also that foreground objects, like the boat mast, were not isolated and removed from the image before distortion. In a fully accurate visualization, foreground objects would not be distorted.

For more information or to download this video, visit: http://hubblesite.org/videos/video_details/25-a-black-hole-visits-baltimore

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Jennifer Lawrence Biography (UPDATE)

She made it big in Hollywood as a bow-wielding tomboy forced to play a game to the death. In this bio update, http://www.WatchMojo.com takes a look at what Jennifer Lawrence has accomplished since we first released her biography in 2012. Check us out at http://www.Twitter.com/WatchMojo, http://instagram.com/watchmojo and http://www.Facebook.com/WatchMojo. Also, check out our interactive Suggestion Tool at http://www.WatchMojo.com/suggest 🙂

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Top 5 Best Worst STAR WARS Creatures with Wil Wheaton! (Nerdist News w/ Jessica Chobot)

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From the Max Rebo Band to Salacious Crumb and more, join special guest Geek & Sundry’s Wil Wheaton as we count down the Top 5 Best Worst STAR WARS Creatures on today’s Nerdist News with Jessica Chobot.

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The Real Science in the HUNGER GAMES (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)

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Delve into the science of THE HUNGER GAMES’s genetically modified creatures, some of their real life counterparts and how that science is being used to better mankind on this week’s Because Science with Kyle Hill.

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Top 10 Must Visit American Cities

These are the top tourist destinations brought to you by way of the U.S. of A. Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the top 10 must-visit American cities. Check us out at http://www.Twitter.com/WatchMojo, http://instagram.com/watchmojo and http://www.Facebook.com/WatchMojo. Also, check out the trivia section for this video: http://watchmojo.com/video/id/13083/#trivia

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KILLER TOYS – Real Housewives of Horror

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The Real Housewives of Horror follows five of the most murderous women in the country as they enjoy the gory and gruesome lifestyle that only Horror can provide.

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